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FSXA Exclude Specific Airports Backgrounds Flatten: Not working?

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I've created some custom blended mesh from a DEM (with "flattened" area set to a single elevation) for a modified airfield. Therefore this airfield doesn't need a custom flatten.

When I load the modified airfield with the blended mesh the [larger] flatten from the default (stock) airfield still causes "cliffs" far outside the exterior of the airfield boundary.

I've created a polygon in ADE larger than the stock flatten extent and designated it as "Exclude Specific: Airports Backgrounds Flatten", but this doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong? How else can I overide the flatten from the stock airfield?

I'm using ADE v1.47.7

Many thanks

Andy
 
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I am sure that someone will be able to help. In the meantime (and it won't really help your problem) you are using an old version of ADE. The current version is 1.50.4402 :)
 
Airtrooper said:
I've created a polygon in ADE larger than the stock flatten extent and designated it as "Exclude Specific: Airports Backgrounds Flatten", but this doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong? How else can I overide the flatten from the stock airfield?
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The polygon to exclude the default airport background needs to be "Exclude Specific - Airports Backgrounds Flatten Mask ClassMap Autogen"

That is what default airport backgrounds are - so using another type of exclude will not cause them no longer display/ impact the scenery.

Also, make the exclusion polygon much smaller - I use 100x100 ft. Locate it somewhere on the default airport you can easily see, but not over the airport reference point.

Also, I assume you know the addition of any polygon creates a _CVX.BGL file - which needs to by in the same folder as your modified airport file.
 
Hi Jon,

Many thanks. Yes, I did wonder about the version, but when I used ADE to check for updates it told me I had the latest. I therefore assumed v1.5 was in Beta.

Regards

Andy
 
1.50 has a new installer. It will update 1.47 but it is not recognized by 1.47 as an update - we changed the update method.

Also there is a beta but that is 1.51.....
 
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